How much did DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

treehuntingtonboys girlswheatleybenton elementaryquitmansciences

2020

boys girlseast elementaryjenningslovedoyle elementarycongress parentselementary usd

2021

elementaryoak hilllewisquadatokaboys girlsyoung womens

2022

beyond wordsyouth partneradult partnerbaptistadvocacystartskills

2023

easter sealslearning labelginepelbeyond wordsnelson resourcebetterself

2024

bartow collaborativecollaborative bartowcorazonbartow treatmenttreatment courtsciencelift

2025

youth litlit summeradult litadult youthfoundatiofoundatifoun

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 523 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k306 grants · $2.4M
$10k–50k193 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k15 grants · $2.0M
$250k+9 grants · $7.6M

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$70M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAVE THE CHILDREN$1,700,000
THE AD COUNCIL$1,459,973
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,449,254
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE$850,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC$756,124
LEARNING ALLY INC$602,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$300,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNI$265,000
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION$250,000
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE$215,000
NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION I$200,000
UNITED THROUGH READING$200,000
YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$175,000
PENCIL FOUNDATION$175,000
COALITION ON ADULT BASIC EDUCATION$150,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$89M · 1221 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

1221 repeat relationships — 250 still active in FY2025, 971 since wound down; 271 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1221

508

Total granted

$89M

$8.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+33%

Still filing today

56%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +21%
NP
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +238%
PW
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE
8× · 2018–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +33%

Funded once

SW
SESAME WORKSHOPgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +190%
OH
OPERATION HOPEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +250%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc

To assist adults and children to acquire the english literacy skills and education necessary to improve their quality of life and enhance the entire community.

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The Learning Commnunity Charter School

At the learning community, we believe that literacy empowers each individual to have a voice,assume community responsibility and take social action. we expect leadership at every level. we grow teachers, student leaders, and community…

Education

Reading Allowed

Provide specialized, structured literacy tutoring to children and adults in the philadelphia area who struggle to read, write and spell and who do not have the means to access high quality tutoring.

Education

The Literacy Lab

The literacy lab provides evidence-based, culturally responsive literacy instruction.

Education

Literacy Volunteers of Central

We provide tutoring services through our trained volunteers to adult students and families who want to learn and use the english language more effectively in their daily lives.

Education

Crawford County Literacy Council Inc

Promote literacy in crawford county including the following: reading, introduction - reading, writing, math, english as a second language and ged preparation.

Education

Literacy Council of Frederick County

To provide adults with essential literacy skills for english learners and native english speakers.

—

Read to a Child Inc

Children's literacy & mentoring

Education

Literacy Assistance Center Inc

The mission of the literacy assistance center (lac) is to strengthen and expand the adult education system, and to advance adult literacy as a core value in our society and a foundation for equal opportunity and social justice.

Education

Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc

Working together to ensure that every Oakland child learns and loves to read.

Education

The Whatcom Literacy Council

To teach adults to read, write and speak english.

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The Learning Community School Inc

Education of students grades kindergarten thru 8th offering experiential learning, personalized instruction (10:1 student teacher ratio), team conflict resolution, high academic standards and multi age classes and mentorship.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%31/2,042

the rest of the field

11%

206,133/1,817,523

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1004 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

361

Early backer (in before they grew)

928/1004

Grantees still filing

746/1004

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$51,584,974Education$31,884,258International$7,464,595Human Services$5,933,582Arts & Culture$2,860,155Public Benefit$1,203,500Philanthropy$1,039,602

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wish You Well FoundationNJ67.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wish You Well Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Proliteracy Worldwide · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Scarlett Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Steven & Laurie Eskind

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BASTROP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 742543119 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BASTROP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dollar General Literacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dollar General Literacy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines